January 23, 1897 "Elva Zona Heaster found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband was perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction."

January 23, 1899 Emilio Aguinaldo was sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.

January 23, 1904 "lesund Fire: Norwegian coastal town lesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil architecture."

January 23, 1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes first Native American US senator

January 23, 1908 US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo

January 23, 1909 The first radio rescue at sea

January 23, 1912 "The Aermore Manufacturing Company, a Chicago concern, received a patent for the Aermore Exhaust Horn, a multiple-pipe horn powered by engine exhaust that played a chord like a church organ."

January 23, 1912 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.

January 23, 1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile

January 23, 1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

January 23, 1941 "German prisoner of war Franz von Werra escapes from a train and makes it back to Germany, only to die in action a year later; the only German POW to make a successful escape in Canada."

January 23, 1952 "Death of John Treloar who, along with CEW Bean, did more than any other individual to establish and develop the Australian War Memorial Treloar served as director of the Memorial from 1920 to 1952"

January 23, 1953 Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 16 years 357 days

January 23, 1973 "Neil Young interrupts his concert to read a message handed to him, announcing the signing of the Vietnam peace accord. ""Peace has come,"" he says; after ten minutes of audience celebration, he launches into his single, Southern Man"

January 23, 1973 President Nixon announced that U.S. troops would cease fighting in Vietnam at midnight Jan. 27.

January 23, 1995 "Defence Minister David Collenette disbands the Canadian Airborne Regiment, effective March 5; after some of its soldiers were found to be involved in the death of a Somali boy during the UN mission"

January 23, 1995 In Toronto Ontario surgeons at The Hospital for Sick Children perform a 17 hour operation to separate Pakistani Siamese twins Hira and Nida Jamal; Nida will died a month later

January 23, 1996 "General Electric threw in the towel in the struggle to keep its Genie online service competitive in the growing battle with the Web. The company announced it would sell the service to Yovelle Renaissance Corporation, which would turn Genie into a Web site."

January 23, 1996 The first version of the Java programming language is released.

January 23, 1997 Madeline Albright was sworn into office to become the first woman secretary of state.

January 23, 1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba

January 23, 1999 Monica Lewinsky is ordered by a federal judge to submit to an interview in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Bill Clinton.

January 23, 2004 Senate Democrats demanded an investigation of U.S. government dealings with Halliburton Co. following revelations of kickbacks on Iraq contracts.

January 23, 2005 "Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine."

January 23, 2006 "After over 12 years of Liberal Party rule, Stephen Harper's Conservative Party wins the most seats in the Canadian federal election. Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada with a minority government, assuming office February 6."

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